the longest night

i hear the night rustling in trees and beyond hard beauty blue face of a lunar haze i feel my shape torn to a past gone and drawn to a fire of longer days a circle a square or the shape of my face a day or a night or a thousand tears simple touch…

Silent Pictures

  Posthumous silence, no clocks keeping pace Sepia stain masquerading your face Time standing still on twelve moons never seen, tugging my sleeve, so curious and clean Frozen in frames on your living room floor, these blue flannel daydreams I slept in and more- The future lay scattered with jackets and jeans, beer cans and…

closet space

  feet slide to the floor while it rises to meet the day reptilian brain stalking prehistoric prey   while you lay sleeping, dreaming and slinking something came creeping, invading your thinking   reminiscent, reticent, then quiet… then… nothing powdery box of noxious offerings mixed with your morning coffee   a dour thread unwinds the…